Intro
Software developer with 5 years of enterprise experience focused on DevOps/SysOps and backend web software. Thrive to provide reliable, cost-effective solutions, help his team with relevant tooling, mindful of quality and security aspects.
Looking forward to establishing roots in Canada with a new challenge, eager to take on newer technologies (such as go, docker) at scale.
Work Experience
Work4
DevOps Engineer
2013-2015 Paris, France
2015-2019 San Francisco, USA
- Improved and maintained distributed backend software in Python (Django, Celery)
- Managed web and database systems in AWS, upgrades and reliability (automation w/ Chef)
Overhauled using newer, cheaper (−⅓ cost) AWS systems on a more secure network - Short time-to-resolution w/ critical monitoring, paging (Pagerduty) & incident response proc.
- Rolled out continuous integration (w/ CircleCi) throughout the company, reducing incidents
- Drove improvements to the company's information security (e.g. password manager & policy)
- Initially joined a DevOps team of 4, eventually owning the entire web infrastructure
INIST, CNRS (FR website, EN wikipedia)
Software Engineer Intern
Nancy, France
- Worked on a REST data server based on semantic web and Node.js (Lindory), part of a Scrum team
- Took initiative for the consistency (documentation, interface) and performance (tracked and fixed memory leaks) of the project
CRAI, laboratory in architecture (FR only)
Web developer, Intern
Nancy, France
- Fully rebuilt a static website using PHP and MySQL (the Ruby Library Depot )
- Created a relational model out of static properties files and migrated content
- Drastically improved content administration and website visibility/traffic (+30% over one year)
Education
TELECOM Nancy (ESIAL) engineering school
Nancy, France
- Master of Sciences; French Engineering degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Majored in Enterprise Information Systems (Big data / BI, ERPs, Production control)
IUT Nancy-Charlemagne (FR only)
Nancy, France
- Associate Degree; French Technical degree ("DUT") in Computer Science
Skills
- Proficient with Python, git, PHP, SQL (MySQL), MongoDB, Html/CSS, Chef, Datadog
- Experience with AWS, particularly EC2/VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, and some with Redshift, Lambda
- Intermediate knowledge of shell scripting (Bash), Java, Javascript (node.js), C, XML, PostgreSQL, Docker, Vagrant, Elasticsearch, Redis, Oracle DB
- Accustomed to Linux (~Ubuntu) operating systems, very familiar with MacOS and Windows
- Analysis/modeling tools including UML, BPMN and Merise
- Agile methods, including Scrum
Personal Skills
- French native speaker, English fluent reading/writing and proficient speaking (Europe C1-C2, TOEIC 935, CLB 10/12/8/8)
- Self-taught: initially learned PHP/MySQL using public web resources, in order to develop a small website for a local community (→ Com3frontières)
- Building and maintaining PCs (assembly, setup, repairs/recovery)
Hobbies and interests
- Music (piano, synthesizer), reading and movies (SciFi, animation movies)
- Interest in science, its news and discoveries. Sweet tooth for Space.
- Interest in the Japanese culture (music, anime, society, language)
- Video games (FPS, base-building/survival style games, simulation)